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Dr. Huseyn Aliyev is a Senior Lecturer in Political & International Studies at the University of Glasgow's School of Social and Political Sciences, specializing in Central and Eastern European Studies (CEES). He joined the University of Glasgow in 2017 after serving as a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and as an Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Bremen.
Dr. Aliyev earned his Ph.D. in Political Science in 2014 from the University of Otago, New Zealand, where his dissertation examined the impact of Soviet institutional legacy on post-communist civil society in the Caucasus region. He also holds a joint Master's degree in Humanitarian Action from Ruhr University Bochum and Uppsala University.
His research focuses on civil war dynamics, non-state armed groups, violent mobilization, and the radicalization and demobilization of armed groups. He has particular expertise in security and law enforcement structures in Russia and Ukraine, with regional specialization in Ukraine and the North Caucasus. Since 2014, he has conducted extensive fieldwork in Ukraine, interviewing former and active members of pro-government paramilitary groups.
Dr. Aliyev's scholarly output reveals a consistent focus on paramilitary groups in post-Soviet conflicts, with particular attention to Ukraine and the North Caucasus. His work examines how informal institutions, ethnic dynamics, and social networks influence violent mobilization patterns and conflict outcomes. Recent publications increasingly address foreign fighter mobilization and the persistence of pro-state militias after formal conflict termination.
- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Standard Grant for "From Russia with War" project (2022-2024)
- Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant (2019)
- British Academy Small Research Grant (2019)
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2015-2017)
- Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Group Leader Fellowship (2017-2020)
Dr. Aliyev serves as Principal Investigator for the ESRC-funded "From Russia with War" project examining foreign fighter mobilization in the former Soviet Union. He has supervised doctoral research on North Caucasian governance and teaches courses including War-making and Peace-making in the former Soviet Union, Contested States: The Caucasus since 1991, and Post-communist Russia and the former Soviet Union. His scholarly work appears in leading journals including Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Europe-Asia Studies.
